#it's ALMOST “there was only one bed”

[the-sand-guardian]

Whumptober 14: Left For Dead

A continuation of days 7 and 13. 

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Cellbit turned the key in the ignition and the van rattled to life, though it sputtered and spat much like a Fed he’d stabbed in the throat. The other car revved its engine once, and Cellbit revved theirs right back. Even in the wake of a fainting episode, Pac had those daredevil tendencies that Cellbit had fallen for several years ago. That was long past both of them, though. 

After a moment, Pac sped off in a cloud of red dust, leaving Cellbit and the others behind within it. Cell was having none of this, and quickly shifted in gear before pressing the pedal to the floor and shooting off after him. The sun was beginning to set over the Wasteland, and the reds and oranges of the sky blended into the red dirt of the ground. They needed to get home quickly before the cold set in for the night. Much like a traditional desert, the Wasteland was sweltering during the day, but someone could almost freeze to death at night. 

Cellbit was honestly a little surprised the other car had let him drive the van. Before the end of the world, he’d already been prone to Highway Hypnosis on his commutes to and from work, but now he was probably even worse about it. When you drove through miles and miles of absolutely nothing, it was easy to get lost in your thoughts. Which he was glad wasn’t happening- 

Headlights. 

He swerved hard to the left, but the other car turned to follow. It was hard to see through the high beams absolutely blinding him, but this car seemed much bigger than the one the other half of the group was in. Roier shouted something from the backseat where he sat with Felps. The other car swerved at them again. Cellbit swore and tried to dodge it, but the car rocked and nearly tipped. 

“What the fuck are you doing?” Roier asked from the back.

“Trying to keep us from getting killed!” 

“Do it carefuller! Fuck, here, let me do it, switch me” 

“No! I’m driving! How am I supposed to switch you?” 

Roier groaned and started to climb towards the front of the van only for Cellbit to have to dodge another swing from the other vehicle. 

“Left! Left, Cellbit, turn left!” He yelled at him. Cellbit quickly swerved left, dodging another swing, but leaving him with enough time to knock against the other vehicle. “Muy bien! Do that again!” 

Cellbit listened and did it again. This time, the other car faltered and backed off a bit. It seemed like maybe they would retreat. Cellbit tried to keep his focus and listen to Roier should he have more instructions, but he didn’t yet. 

“Get ready to slow down” Was all he said when he finally did speak. 

Cellbit didn’t question him. The car behind him flashed their lights at him once more before speeding up quickly ahead of them. Cellbit brought his foot down on the brake and brought the van all the way to a crawl as the other car disappeared into the darkness that now surrounded them. Cellbit stopped the car and slumped against the steering wheel. 

“Fuck raiders.” 

“Next time, I’m driving.” 

Cellbit didn’t argue, but simply shifted the van into park so he could let off the brake as he sat up. Adrenaline still flowed through his veins, and he took several deep breaths to try and settle himself back down. Roier took the seat beside him. By now, he’d moved his bandana to wrap it around his forehead, since the air in the car was mostly breathable. Cellbit tried not to stare, but now that he finally saw the other man’s face, he couldn’t help but think he was absolutely beautiful. Cellbit only hoped that one day he’d be able to see blood spattered over Roier’s face and the glint of power in his eyes- a part of him almost wanted it to be his own blood, too. 

“Oi, Cellbit! He won’t go anywhere if you blink!” Felps teased from the backseat. Cell shot him a glare almost as piercing as the bullet that had hit him earlier, but he could hear Roier let out a lighthearted giggle. Cellbit himself smiled a little before shaking his head. 

Unfortunately, their moment of peace was cut short by a terrible chill. Cellbit looked out the window and into the dark void around them. It was too dark for him to see any nearby buildings to guide off of and the gps had become nearly obsolete in the months since The End. They were lost. Completely and hopelessly lost. The car of their other friends was completely gone, too, and they likely wouldn’t notice their absence until morning. 

Now there was another dilemma: Gas. Either they used the remaining gas in the tank to keep warm and comfortable for the night, or they were able to drive home in the morning. Cellbit turned off the van. 

“We need to find something to cover up with, we don’t have enough fuel to get back and stay warm tonight” Cellbit explained to the others. Felps was still in too much pain to get up and look around, but Roier had no problems digging through the containers in the back of the van for supplies. Cellbit got up and helped him search. In the end, they had found a few cuts of fabric and tarp that would do for the night. 

“You two can share, I’m injured” Felps stated matter-of-factly as he took some fabric and a tarp. Cellbit stared into him again. “What? I’m not wrong. You didn’t have to have a bullet carved out of you without dinner.” 

“He’s got a point,” Roier hummed, already getting himself set up as well. 

“Come on, don’t take his side on this-” Cellbit began to argue. Felps knew exactly what he was doing, and Cellbit was sure of that. He wasn’t going to let him win this if he could help it. 

“I’m not budging. Your knife was in my gut earlier. You can freeze for all I care” Felps rolled over with a wince and shut his eyes. 

Cellbit swore under his breath and rolled his eyes. Fucking Felps. He decided not to argue with the injured and possibly dying man any longer and begrudgingly took his place next to Roier.

“He probably does need the warmth. He lost a lot of blood, Cellbit” Roier explained as though Cellbit hadn’t been the one to fish the bullet out of his friend’s abdomen. 

“Eu sei- He’ll be fine though.” Cellbit laid down and tried to ignore just how warm Roier was. 

“And we will be too. Come on, gatito, I’m not that bad of a cuddler” Roier giggled a bit at his own joke.

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Thank you for reading! I've also posted this to Ao3, where I'll be cataloguing all of my works for this month! I also have 3 other WIP fics, so if you enjoy my works please go show some love over there or feel free to shoot me an ask!

[buwheal]

Hello, Spamton!

How's life? Also, do you have any opinions on the Addisons? (Pink, blue, orange, and yellow)

If so, what do you think of them?

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 » T-shirts

[eggcats]

this is cursed, but the knowledge won't leave me alone, so-

Vox isn't into feet. People have asked, and he can honestly say absolutely not. Luckily for him, no one thinks to ask his opinions on hooves...

[serpentface]

HAUNTING PHOTO TAKEN SECONDS BEFORE DISASTER

[cerealmonster15]

COULDNT SLEEP. GRABBED TABLET. DREW ANOTHER STUPID CHART. I LOVE MAKING STUPID CHARTS. GOING BACK TO BED.

[rolandkaros]

[CHANGEOVERS.]

[coridallasmultipass]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BESTEST WIDDLE SNAKEY WAKEY.

I can't believe my son is 18!! I estimated a birth date for him to be about a month before I got him in fall of 2006, since he was such a widdle month-old baby sneky. I always try to get a good birthday pic of him - especially after he eats and gets the good yawns in.

Pretty soon, he'll be off to snake college, for snakes. Dunno how we're gonna afford those ssssnudent loans.

Image description below the cut:

First photo is an albino corn snake (species name: Pantherophis guttatus) peeking out from behind a fake flower on a rocky hide (a house inside the tank where reptiles can feel secure and hidden). The snake is flicking his tongue out. Only his head is visible in the photo. Caption on the photo reads: Demo's 18th birthday. August 9, 2024.

Next photo is the same snake, but in a clear, close-up, detail photo. Each scale is clearly defined. He has red eyes and pink cheeks, and pale white patterns on an off-white body. The scales on his head are shaped to follow the different planes of his face. The scales on his neck (and body, not shown) are uniform and scallop-shaped.

The next three photos are sequential. The same snake appears with his mouth barely open. Then, his mouth is wide open in a yawn. His cheeks look so smooshy. His head is shaped the way a snap hairclip opens, curved upwards, and it's funny and cute. His mouth has ridges inside, but no teeth or fangs are visible (because his teeth are too tiny to be photographed politely, and he does not have any fangs). The last photo in the sequence has the snake with his mouth still open, but the top of his head is a normal shape again as he begins to end the yawn.

[jazzzzzzhands]

I loved my sketches so much, i decided to finish them!

[ipatrichor]

dead boy detectives episode seven thoughts

hey what if i cried. what if I lay down on the floor and curled up in a ball and wept and wailed my little heart out?? what then???

ohhh my god. oh my god. i've said like twice now that this show keeps giving me everything i've ever wanted but it just keeps being true!!! i'm going to sob how does every episode just keep getting better How do the writers know exactly what i want and then do it better than i thought of are they in my head??? oh my godddd this episode was devastating

hey i'm gonna cry. what do you mean edwin died scared and alone so he made sure charles didn't. that's devastating actually!!! he died in the dark and he was scared and he had no one, so he brings charles a lamp and answers his questions about ghosts and reads him a detective story with silly voices. what the hell that's so. i do not have words for this it hits so deeply!!! edwin is so deeply kind in a way that doesn't always come across because he's also a prickly bitch, and i love him so much holy shit

hell was genuinely so unsettling what the fuck. the spider MADE OF DOLL HEADS(??!!!?!?!?!?!) was bad enough, but it was such an incredibly good choice to have it appear empty on the way in and only be able to see all the suffering on the way out. it really upped the creep factor in the first part, and then really made the escape feel frenzied. very well done!! the imagery was insane, i really Believed that this was Actual Hell

actually on that point. there was one detail that meant so so much to me, in a way i'm not quite sure how to explain but will give my best effort. after edwin's conversation with simon, after they reach some kind of closure, the blue light implying that simon is able to move on in some way and maybe leave hell... if someone wasn't raised christian & subsequently deconverted idk if that stands out to anyone else, but. okay basically there's a conversation about how hell, by definition, cannot be just because it's infinite punishment for a finite crime. and that wasn't necessarily the point of the scene, but as someone who's been doing a lot of unpacking stuff around this recently it just. it hit hard man. in a good way! that scene actually means so much to me... god this whole episode is fantastic

crystal confronting daniel!!! my god i am so proud of our girl!!! yess take your agency back and regain control of your life!!!!! also jenny frequently being annoyed by crystal but still following her to a spooky abandoned area with a knife just so she won't have to face her abusive ex alone... god i love jenny. like yeah she's abrasive and kinda a dick but also she truly cannot stop herself from providing support to these two weird as hell teenagers living above her shop.

AND NIKO!!!! god niko was absolutely brilliant this episode... absolutely the mvp of the entire show goddamn, she really read the rules and made that the night nurse's problem <3 i love that for her so much. however i will say something has been worrying me. that magic 8 ball that's supposed to tell you when you're going to die has apparently been consistently saying 'outlook not good' and it's been mentioned twice now. and given that this show doesn't establish things like that and let them go to waste... i am Concerned. not to mention, the scene where it was her and the night nurse talking about zombies?? like idk it could be nothing!!! but also that is classic foreshadowing so i am simply concerned!!!

alright i got most of the immediate thoughts CONFESSION SCENE. HOLY SHIT. okay so i know i'm not super into confessions and i tend to nitpick when fictional characters behave certain ways pertaining to romance depending on whether the narrative promotes it or not (yes, i have a complicated relationship with romance, it came free with the demiromanticism. but also my partner is amazing so if written characters aren't that's just kinda a skill issue? lol). ANYWAY. this scene though was amazing. edwin tells charles how he feels, putting no pressure on charles to respond or feel the same. and charles clearly isn't sure how he feels- it doesn't seem like he's ever thought of edwin in that way before, and he's awkward about it but still assures edwin that even if he doesn't know if he can return those feelings, edwin is still incredibly important to him and nothing's gonna change that.

god it's just. such a good way to handle that scene!! literally everything i hoped for ^^ even if charles doesn't feel the same (which i didn't think he would given they've been hinting at romance with crystal and not building romantic feelings towards edwin the same way they've been building edwin's feelings for him but as always who knows) he still reaffirms how much he cares about edwin, because like i've been saying they're the most important person to each other and it truly does not matter if it's platonic or romantic!!!

i also love how well this lined up with established characterization haha. like, of course charles made a deal with the night nurse and leaped into hell headfirst and alone to rescue edwin, he's impulsive even when he isn't emotionally compromised and he'd never abandon his best mate. of course niko tries to connect with the people around her and ends up being incredibly helpful with a unique insight, that's what she's been doing this whole time! of course crystal runs off to find her own way to hell after being stopped from accompanying charles, she hates feeling useless and consistently endangers herself for the sake of her friends. of course edwin tries to convince simon to escape hell with him, he's heartbreakingly good and has spent the whole show trying to help people no one else can. it's all so... god, they are who they are and i love them so much

anyway i will leave u all with a funny thought i had. i haven't engaged with the fandom outside of my pal noble sorry if this is a joke everyone is already making

the cat king: i'll be here waiting when he escapes hell again, god i'm such a romantic meanwhile, charles breaking into hell:

[starlitangels]

*Lou Bega voice*

Ladies and gentlemen and nonbinary friends, this is Redacted Number Five!

*cue music*

🎶A little bit of Oliver in my life

A little bit Avior by my side

A little bit of David’s all I need

A little bit of Vincent’s what I see

A little bit of Milo in the sun

A little bit of Gavin all night long

A little bit of Elliott here I am

A little bit of you makes he your man🎶

[daswarschonkaputt]

so a few select people know that i've been working on these bad boys for a few weeks now. this collection started because @mortimerlatrice had the audacity to try and tell me that fem!kinn wouldn't wear skirts and dresses and i pretty much broke my tablet pen in the rush to prove her wrong. also i felt like redesigning my fem!kinn and fem!porsche ideas. beneath the cut are my thoughts on these outfits plus the fashion collections they're inspired by/referencing.

fem!kinn businesswear looks

fem!kinn i feel like is the type of person who weaponises her gender expression. every part of how she presents herself is a carefully cultivated power play. she smokes cigars and drinks scotch and can talk at length about stocks and cryptocurrency, but she wears high heels even though she had to teach herself how to run in them, has long hair even though styling it is a nightmare, and is never seen without make-up, because every part of her must straddle a line of being masculine enough to be respected without being dismissed as butch, or a transgressor of gender norms. so: power suits and heels.

most of these are just riffs on the show's suits, so no real reference images, though hilarious @elnotwoods and i managed to parallel brain the exact same corset + suit look bc we are bloggers of TASTE.

fem!kinn occasionwear looks

the product launch -- upon rewatching clips from this episode i realised that the product launch apparently has a roaring 20s theme? which be wildin'. i spent so long looking at pictures of 20s style dresses until i found eliza jane howell who is a tiny british designer who has an entire collection of 20s inspired gowns. the inspo for kinn's dress was the miranda dress from her eveningwear collection.

the diamond auction -- i've drawn fem!kinn in this dress before, and i stand by it. this is a dress from ralph and russo's fall 2015 couture collection, specifically look 12. i first saw this dress months ago when i was looking for clothes for a project i was working on and it's lived in my brain rent free since.

date night i and date night ii -- both of these dresses i saw on pinterest somewhere and forget to save the link bc when i do art i usually have abt 50 billion tabs open. (i make firefox weep each time i open a new one.)

looks that almost made it in: michael cors rtw fall 2022 look 24; and schiaparelli couture spring 2022 look 24.

fem!kinn misc looks

okay so the theme for this one was actually "iconic kinn looks" and you know what? the towel was iconic. there i said it.

the sleepwear look -- *cries in detail work* yes all that lace is hand-drawn YES MY WRIST ACHED SO BAD AFTER FINISHING IT, this one is just conjured out of my head, no inspo look

the suspenders -- real ones know which kinn look this one is based off. just google kinn in suspenders or something i guess because we were ROBBED that it wasn't in the show. ROBBED.

the towel -- since drawing it multiple ppl have told me that they think fem!kinn would just wear the towel on her hips, tits out, no shame, and they are all so valid.

family portrait -- when i was drawing this, i got sent a look by siv that i initially discounted because it was a skirt suit and fem!kinn all about those power suits. and then i was looking for thai designers and i saw the same look and i was like, "okay but she'd only wear this in a family portrait," and then i was like hhrrrrnngngn family portrait outfits for all of them, so now it's a category. this is a recoloured version of poem bangkok's fall 2022 rtw collection look 19.

fem!porsche "pre-kinn" looks

okay so my thoughts on fem!porsche are as someone for whom gender is almost an afterthought, whose main friends are all guys, who drinks bear and kicks ass and cuts her own hair whenever it gets too annoying, who buys male toilettries because they're cheaper, who's made a career out of being rich girl's experimental whirl into lesbianism, and who can get them off real easy but isn't so good at getting herself off. she's hooked up with her fair share of guys, and considers herself more of a male-leaning bisexual. like, girls are fun and all, but she tends to have a better time when she hooks up with guys. (kinn's gonna blow that out of the water, hahaha.)

the fighter outfit -- originally this was going to be just a sports bra + jeans, but then i saw a pic of a cropped hoodie and my brain just sort of blanked out and when i was done the art was finished. porsche's abs are very important to me. as are her arms. and her thighs. she's an itty bitty titty committee member tho and i stand by that.

the bartender outfit -- i've drawn this one before, but yes! all the buttons undone! cheapest black shirt and slacks! converse!!! YESS

the casual outfit -- bike shorts, big t, big shirt? yes. fem!porsche sits somewhere between jock and gonna-fix-your-appliances on a fashion basis and i am here for it.

fem-porsche "kinn era" looks

one of the big ideas i had going into this project was the idea that porsche feels divorced from her femininity in a way that she's not altogether satisfied with and that kinn helps her reconnect with it. because, like, let's be real: porsche has no major feminine influences in her life growing up, and she's literally always got bigger concerns. she defo plays up the idea that she's above it all, whilst also completely lost as to how to get to there. kinn is probably both an object of envy and attraction for her.

(also i have in my head that the sauna conversation goes something like: porsche: do you have a boyfriend, then? kinn: i've never once found a man that truly wants a powerful woman. porsche: huh, that's weird. i've had no trouble finding guys who want me to hold the up against a wall.)

anyway it's important to me that kinn makes porsche feel dainty and feminine.

the bodyguard look -- hrrrrngngng waist. that is all.

clubbing with tankhun -- you know how i said somewhere between jock and owns a monkey wrench? meet porsche out clubbing. love it for her.

first public date with kinn -- so the background i had imagined for this outfit was that porsche and kinn are going public, and kinn sends her a box with a dress to wear plus heels, only porsche can literally not stand for more than two seconds in the heels and hates them, so she wears her converse instead. this is almost a direct copy of look 12 from monse's spring 2021 rtw collection.

black tie date with kinn -- obvs this is a dress that kinn picked out for her, so i thought long and hard about what kinn would choose. in the end, i figured kinn would probably want her to look regal. i looked at so many dresses for this one, esp bc there was a secret requirement where i wanted the skirt to be loose enough that kinn could eat her out in it. look, i just think it would be gender if kinn dressed porsche up in this dress and porsche felt all pretty and feminine and then kinn ate her out in the bathroom at the event or something. you know. girl things. this dress is look 6 from valdrin sahiti's spring 2022 bridal collection and i had to download a pdf to get a reference picture, so appreciate my work. also shoutout literally the only time porsche is wearing heels. kinn had to give her like three hours of walking lessons.

fem!porsche minor family head looks

michael kors collection saved my bacon here. i really struggled to figure out what fem!porsche's overall aesthetic would be for her minor family head position. i wanted something distinct from kinn, but didn't think she'd go full androgyny. in the end i settled on a well-tailored suits with a military flare in their cut.

first business look -- this one is based on look 19 from michael kors collection's fall 2022 rtw collection. dem arms.

second business look -- same song, different verse. same collection, but look 7. the thigh-high boots were added by me, though. i wasn't drawing lesbian kinnporsche without putting one of them in thigh-high boots.

visiting mum -- a couple of things. this one is based on this photo i found on pinterest, because i just really liked the neckline. details you might miss: this is arguably porsche's most femme outfit here, but she doesn't have the perfectly styled hair that she has when she's on mafia business, and she's still wearing her ratty beat-up converse. she's feminine, but trying to be authentic. it's a specific kind of messaging she's trying to get across to her mum. she probably agonised for hours over what to wear. kinn definitely really likes her in it.

family portrait -- again, plucked from my own imagination. the original inspiration for this look was look 9 from altuzarra pre-fall 2020 but if you click that link you'll probably be able to tell i went completely off-script. the more i drew it, basically, the more the altuzarra look looked too japanese, which is understandable, because that collection's whole thing was about blending modern and traditional japanese fashion. in the end, i pivoted, and brought it more in line with kinn's look, because i really did want them to have similar vibes. (couples outfits? couples outfits!!)

near misses -- these ones almost ended up involved: altuzarra pre-fall 2020 look 6 for the family portrait; michael kors fall 2020 look 60 also for the family portrait; michael kors fall 2020 look 30 for minor family mafia business; look 17 from alexander mcqueen's 2011 pre-fall collection also for mafia business; this look from pinterest for mafia business that got discounted bc i was going in a different direction; and this dress from rouba.g's spring 2019 rtw collection for the black tie dress which literally only avoided inclusion here because i couldn't make the sheer fabric look right.

anyway the takeaway here is don't get into an argument with me because i will bring receipts. mort learned their lesson, don't worry.

also @yeetlegay i gave you adequate warning. you knew it was coming.

[skenpiel]

i filled a whole canvas with shitty little rose doodles te other day and this was the only one that came out even half decent LAWL. can u tell i lik e stylizing -_-

[0vergrowngraveyard]

i had a dream that would’ve been SUCH a good fic idea—it played out in my mind like a movie, almost every detail—but i don’t have the skill set to write ittttt

[just-a-carrot]

tho i've been having fun with DDON i started to miss their DD2 versions so much i had to go back and play a little bit, so i decided to be extra and make some gifs of them in the sacred arbor (the elf village) as i think it's very beautiful (and it's where i headcanon their first kiss was 🤐💦💕)

as luck would have it, the emote mod had recently updated allowing for some previously unavailable animations, so i was even able to try out some new things (tho i still have not found the cute animation where genzou lies back and rolls over WHERE IS IT)

the dancing ones are especially fun. i may try to see if i can sneak genzou in to the masquerade and get some shots so it looks like they went to the ball together LOL (don't judge me)